Aja Lapus

Author: Aja

  • E-mushiness: Ham or Spam?

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    I have posted here interesting things I’ve received as spam, but nothing seems to get close to appear ham like this one. It was nevertheless caught by my spam filter, but its idea is so unusual, I just can’t let it pass. It even has a companion Web site that looks legitimate.

  • Show Off Your Desktop

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    Lexie had me tag myself for showing off her simple, albeit funny, desktop. I really want to do the meme, though I had a little difficulty picking which one out of four systems (or maybe every one) I use I should show, and from which systems I’d pick five of my favorite applications. I eventually…

  • No Windows, No QWERTY

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    After more than a decade of computing experience, and being stuck with Microsoft Windows along with the QWERTY keyboard layout, my non-conforming self just wanted to be different.

  • Avoid MS Excel 2007

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    MS Excel has a certain multiplication bug reproduced by doing multiplication that would result to 65,535 (0xFFFF). Try =850*77.1 on yours.

  • Spammers Willing to Negotiate?

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    I’ve just received an irrelevant comment on one of my old blog entries, which was both suspicious and intriguing at the same time.